The Cost of Cloud Computing
Over the last month or so I’ve been building a new blog site for my virtualisation discussions. If you are reading this post, then congratulations! You’ve found my site. I already write on storage at www.thestoragearchitect.com but I wanted to segment out the virtualisation part of my work and set some clear boundaries between some [...]
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Playing with Virtual Box
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development project I [...]
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VMware Release Zimbra as an Appliance
At the beginning of this year, VMware announced they were to acquire Zimbra, a provider of email and collaboration software, from Yahoo. Although the move was widely reported, it wasn’t on the face of it the most strategic of VMware’s moves. The acquisition does provide VMware with more access into the business of delivering applications [...]
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London VMware User Group 15 July 2010 – Slides
Last week I presented at the VMware User Group in London. Here are the slides I used for that presentation. These slides are freely available for download and distribution. VMUG – Thin Storage in a Virtual World – 15-07-10
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Hyper-V
Playing with Virtual Box
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development project I [...]
VMware
Playing with Virtual Box
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development project I [...]
Cloud
The Cost of Cloud Computing
Over the last month or so I’ve been building a new blog site for my virtualisation discussions. If you are reading this post, then congratulations! You’ve found my site. I already write on storage at www.thestoragearchitect.com but I wanted to segment out the virtualisation part of my work and set some clear boundaries between some [...]
Opinion
Opinion: Netapp & vSphere 4.1 – Where’s the Beef?
Yesterday’s announcements on vSphere 4.1 was amazing in a number of respects. Firstly the blogging community were falling over themselves to make announcements on the new release. I expect there was a well organised PR & marketing push behind the scenes to get so many people talking about the technology from midnight onwards. Secondly, there [...]
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The Cost of Cloud Computing
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London VMware User Group 15 July 2010 – Slides
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Opinion: Netapp & vSphere 4.1 – Where’s the Beef?
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John Good point. I found Azure a bit cumbersome, but I will revisit it. Thank -
John Obeto:
Since you are using Windows Server 2008, have you thought about using Windows Az -
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Chris, Kudos on the new site! I agree with you that there is a lot of press ar -
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Twitter Feed
- BRCD seems to be seeing an uptick today - up 7.6% already - hoping Dell are on the rebound?
- @Storagezilla I didn't think there were any EVA folks any more (natural selection)
- Erm @3parfarley we expect the first SWCSA to be with @hpstorageguy
- @SteveTodd completely! My record was about 5 peas at the same time.
- I have just eaten a bag of wasabi peas and have what I can only describe as gut ache.
- RT @Storagezilla: Time to go around the horn: 3Par at $2.4B Good deal/Bad deal? (Choose one and retweet.) <- good for 3par bad for purchaser
- @SEPATONJay @storagezilla I guess it's a case of "we will offer more money but we want more consequences if we back out"
- @Storagezilla so that implies only the old agreement is still in place?
- @Storagezilla 3Par's statement doesn't make sense. The reseller agreement is part of revised Dell proposal which they said unacceptable
- [shared] Creation was Godless says Hawking: There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe,... http://bbc.in/9PNCUW
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The Cost of Cloud Computing
Over the last month or so I’ve been building a new blog site for my virtualisation discussions. If you are reading this post, then congratulations! You’ve found my site. I already write on storage at www.thestoragearchitect.com but I wanted to segment out the virtualisation part of my work and set some clear boundaries between some [...]
Playing with Virtual Box
I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development project I [...]
VMware Release Zimbra as an Appliance
At the beginning of this year, VMware announced they were to acquire Zimbra, a provider of email and collaboration software, from Yahoo. Although the move was widely reported, it wasn’t on the face of it the most strategic of VMware’s moves. The acquisition does provide VMware with more access into the business of delivering applications [...]
London VMware User Group 15 July 2010 – Slides
Last week I presented at the VMware User Group in London. Here are the slides I used for that presentation. These slides are freely available for download and distribution. VMUG – Thin Storage in a Virtual World – 15-07-10
Opinion: Netapp & vSphere 4.1 – Where’s the Beef?
Yesterday’s announcements on vSphere 4.1 was amazing in a number of respects. Firstly the blogging community were falling over themselves to make announcements on the new release. I expect there was a well organised PR & marketing push behind the scenes to get so many people talking about the technology from midnight onwards. Secondly, there [...]
VMware Release vSphere 4.1: Vendors Rush to Support VAAI?
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1, the next generation of their ever evolving hypervisor. To be honest it would be hard to miss this announcement judging by the flurry of “first to blog” posts I’ve seen on RSS feeds and Twitter today (see the list at the end of this post). I’d [...]
Atmos Online Goes Offline
Chris Mellor at The Register picked up on the announcement from EMC on June 29th that the Atmos Online service is being withdrawn from production service and will return to a development platform. In the future, Atmos Online will only be available from partners, however the other flavours of Atmos (virtual appliance and hardware) will [...]
DroboPro – Hyper-V’s Best Friend!
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of vmfs support within the Drobo operating system, especially as the product sells itself on understanding the filesystem format. My next [...]
ESXi: Learning The Hard Way
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened. Failing Disk I [...]
How To: Accessing DroboPro Dashboard With iSCSI
In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw, as it requires taking the DroboPro down and off the network in order to connect to [...]